Del 21 i serien Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Virtue reconsider’d

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Married women in England during the long eighteenth century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAlison Daniell,Kim Simpson

2 709 kr

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Wives have long been neglected as a topic of scholarly research. The invisibility of married women in England within the historical record, the complexities of their legal and economic status, and an erroneous belief that women’s activities were confined to the domestic has meant that little attention has been focussed exclusively on wives. Now, however, new scholarship is challenging the orthodoxy of previously dominant ‘private sphere’ narratives and demonstrating that the roles available to married women were more nuanced and dynamic than mainstream assumptions have allowed. This edited volume brings together new research from a number of disciplines to interrogate key issues relating to married women during the long eighteenth century: coverture and the law, literary representation and ideology, paid labour and property ownership. In doing so, it also explores new cross-chronological and multi-disciplinary models that will direct future research.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-06
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSeventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Antal sidor264
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526187468

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Introduction: Adventurous wives; or, virtue reconsider’dAlison Daniell & Kim SimpsonI: Wives and the law: Constructing the wife1 Litigious and literary wives: Teresia Phillips, Melinda Graham and Sarah RipponSarah Ailwood2 Rethinking marriage: The ideology of wifely duty as subversive agencyAmy ClarkeII: Wives in literature: Writing the wife3 Wives as they were: Married women in eighteenth-century comedyEva Lippold4 ‘A labyrinth of adventures’: Married women and masculine virtue in Mary Robinson’s Letter to the Women of England (1799) and The Natural Daughter (1799)Anne Claire Michoux5 Subversive bodily sensibility in Charlotte Smith’s EmmelineHeather Heckman-McKennaIII: Wives in the economy: Paid labour and property ownership6 Rediscovering Francesca Corri née Bacchelli (c.1749-1802)Brianna Robertson-Kirkland7 A card to the ladies: Working wives in Winchester and SalisburyAlison Daniell8 Wives as slave owners: Elite women in Georgian theatre audiencesDavid WorrallAfterword: Going public; or, beyond received narrativesBibliographyIndex